APES--Chapter 7 Review—Human population



Population pyramids (age structure diagram):Be able to look at the diagram and know whether the population is growing (?), shrinking (upside down ?) ,or stable (rectangular shaped П).Be able to estimate the quantity of people within a given gender/age range.Be able to compare two populations and state whether they are developed/developing, which stage of the demographic transition they represent, which population is larger/smaller, which has high/lower education, which is richer/poorer.Demographic transition:Know what is happening at each stage (rapid growth, industrialization, when birth/death rates go up/down)Know the scenarios that would lead to higher population growth rates:Less education (especially females), earlier start of reproduction, longer length of reproduction, low per capita income, etc.How do you calculate WORLD population growth? National Population growth?Know reasons why the human population has been able to overcome its carrying capacity.Ability to increase food supply through innovation.Where do the highest incidences of infectious diseases like HIV occur?Define childhood/infant mortality rate.What US minority/majority has the lowest incidence of childhood/infant mortality?What is the relationship between childhood/infant mortality, life expectancy, affluence, technology?What is GDP? What do you use to calculate it?What was Malthus’s theory?Know life expectancy rates for world (global), US, and sub-Saharan Africa.Know the rule of 70 and be able to calculate it.Know the IPAT and IPAT/S formulas and be able to calculate it.Know that an ecological footprint is a calculation showing the amount of LAND and RESOURCES used by individuals/nations/etc.Know why US has a high ecological footprint.Know reasons why developing countries have higher growth rates.Know what population momentum is and how it affects population growth.Know reasons why the US population would continue to grow even though it is at replacement level fertility (reasons besides population momentum).What is TFR, how is it calculated?How do you calculate future population size? ................
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